Line Comment Alt case sensitive even if Nocase

[PaoloFCantoni]

Is it my imagination or is the Line Comment Alt case sensitive even if Nocase marked for the language?

Can anyone confirm this, before I report the bug?

TIA,

Paolo

[Mofi]

Yes, the alternate line comment is case-sensitive as all other comment specifications too. For an explanation read the ultimate test for invalid words macro which I have posted today.

[PaoloFCantoni]

Hi Mofi,
I searched the post and could NOT find:

1) Specific mention of the case sensitivity of Comment specifications
2) A reason for why this is so (in the case of a Nocase language specification)

Thanks for confirming the observation. However, why is it NOT a bug It seems inconsistent to me.

(BTW: Great posting!)
Paolo

[Mofi]

A text file is parsed first for lines, then comments, then strings and then words with the delimiter set which are always not case sensitive. The words are then according to Nocase compared with strcmp or stricmp (or however the C++ function names are for string comparison) or convert every string to lowercase before comparing strings which I think UE really does.

The line termination, comments, strings and delimiter characters are normally not letters and so case sensitivity is not important.

When Nocase should be also active before splitting the files into comments, strings and words then a program like UE has according to this setting convert all its strings in its buffers to lowercase and also the content of the file while parsing it.

Well, that would be possible, but is currently not the case. You can interpret it as a bug. That's up to you. Sent a bug report email to IDM support. If the developers share your point of view, they will maybe change it.

[PaoloFCantoni]

The line termination, comments, strings and delimiter characters are normally not letters and so case sensitivity is not important.

This isn't true of the various Basic dialects also many SQL dialects.

I will report a bug and hope for the best...

Thanks again Mofi,
Paolo